yawn
/jɔn/ noun B2- The action of yawning; opening the mouth widely and taking a long, rather deep breath, often because one is tired or bored.
- A particularly boring event. · The slideshow we sat through was such a yawn. I was glad when it finished.
Plural yawns
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I know not, sir, when I got this habit of yawning, nor whether these attacks of howling were inflicted on me as a judgment for my crimes, or for any other cause; but this I do know, that when I yawn for the third time, I actually turn into a wolf and attack men.” With this speech he commenced a second fit of yawning and again howled like a wolf, as he had at first.
“It’s quite exciting,” said Sherlock Holmes, with a yawn.
“If it’s a local villain there should not be much difficulty in running him down,” said Holmes with a yawn.
At length, quite exhausted by the attempt to be amused with her own book, which she had only chosen because it was the second volume of his, she gave a great yawn and said, “How pleasant it is to spend an evening in this way!
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